Observer, I just don't think the voters would take the time to look that deeply into what Hendrix or a team like them has done.  I'm not saying that the voters don't try their best to get it right, or that Hendrix does not deserve recognition, as I can remember the days when the Warriors could basically get from game to game in a 15-passenger van, the trainer was also the bullpen catcher, and moral victories far exceeded actual ones.  I just think the voters would be more comfortable throwing votes at a 12-2 team that may have beaten up on some bad competition, rather than having to provide an explanatory appendix to any votes given to Hendrix or the like.  

That said, it is great to see the Hendrix program doing what it has.  

I have no desire to get involved with the discussion of Coach Scannell, but does anyone remember Hendrix's former coach, Baxendale.  To put it as nicely as possible, that guy never failed to entertain.  

Any report on the Trinity game yesterday?  I'm not familiar with Desales.  DIII?  NAIA?  I imagine it was a pitch-by-committee type thing with the Southwestern games this weekend. 

I've read this board for quite some time, but have never felt inclined to chime in until now.  I'm not sure why that is (perhaps boredom), but here we go.
I personally find all this discussion/dissension surrounding the Notre Dame game to be rather silly, and I couldn't help but be reminded of the game infielddad mentioned between Millsaps and Montclair State played on a Saturday afternoon before a night cap against Trinity (it was actually 2003, but that's not important).  In that game, Millsaps was absolutely destroyed by a very good Montclair St. team.  That night, Millsaps came back and put together its best game of the year to that point, and beat Trinity (8-1, I think), and then went on a good second-half run for the SCAC title.  

People talk a lot about turning points or defining points in a season, and I suppose that weekend could have been regarded as such.  But was it the actual games being on the schedule, or was it what Coach Page made of those games and relayed to his players that caused the "turning point?"  I would suspect the latter.  Point being, its not the schedule thats going to define this year's Trinity team.  Its the players and coaches.  While it makes for good message board fodder, I don't see much sense in arguing what a single day, several weeks in the future, means for a team, much less what it means for other teams in the conference.  A good coach like Coach Scannell will take any type of win or loss against Notre Dame and use it to build toward the next day and the rest of the season.  
I think it goes without saying that the entire conference hopes that Trinity represents the SCAC and D3 admirably in that game, and should hope the Tigers come away with a win.  
As for the disrespect issue, I think that is just a matter of folks supporting/defending their team a little more adamantly than they commend others, and I personally don't see anything wrong with that.  Tis the nature of fanhood.